Matisyahu's Blog

I finally got motivated to get back into going for a walk – first day back after a week of not exercising and I was expecting the worst but actually I came back, completed the 11.6km in under 2 hours and I don’t feel sore or stiff which is a good sign. I was expecting that maybe things may have changed around the area – houses finally getting built on the few empty plots of land that have been empty for quite some time but it appears not to be the case. It’s always good to keep an eye on what is happening in the neighbourhood – hopefully once we get through this year that 2026 will be a better year but something tells me that until Trump and the Republicans are gone then the global economy is going to be experience more instability as so long as a single person can suddenly wake up and randomly throw around tariffs like they’re confetti.

I find it funny how tech dude bro influencers online are surprised, after hyping AI to the ceiling and beyond, that the average person just wants an operating system that is stable, reliable and gets out of the way when they want to use their computer (link). I always found it funny how these tech dude bro influencers convinced themselves and the echo chamber they occupy that Apple ‘being behind’ in AI is a major issue, meanwhile in the real world all the surveys showed that end users buying phones care about AI as much as they do about thinness which is around 7%. Long story short, maybe some of these influencers should actually hang out with normal people rather than convincing themselves that their human centipede of regurgitated slop is representative of what the priorities are when it comes to where most people sit.

Personally, I see many features in Windows that I don’t use it – it’s like many things that come bundled with WIndows, I’m sure there is someone somewhere saying that a feature I don’t need is their must have feature so in the grand scheme of things it is not a big deal. On a side note, something tells me that if Microsoft weren’t ramming AI into everything I don’t see them suddenly spending more resources fixing up the inconsistent nature of their user interface. To say that Microsoft would use the resources to fix people’s pet peeves reminds me of an episode of ‘Yes Prime Minister’ regarding a question posed to school children that if nuclear weapons were gotten rid of then how much money would be saved? as Sir Humphrey Appleby points out – there would be no money saved, it would be spend on conventional weapons instead.

Personally, having lived through the years of Windows 10, I would sooner the the current process of taking a more conservative approach to development rather than the breakneck speed where Windows 10 it was 6 monthly big updates with people guessing what has been broken this time around. Yeah, it was not enjoyable so in the case of my experience with Windows 11 so far I haven’t experienced any major issues and the Windows 11 on ARM has been pretty robust – it’ll be interesting to see whether 26H1 makes its way to the current ARM Surface laptops given that I could imagine there being under the hood improvements that could also benefit the current Qualcomm X Elite product line up but then again they may play it say and would sooner use the extra time to ensure what is shipped is rock solid for their existing customers.